Hearing Van Vliet's words as if he had gone crazy, Li Qiwei on the other end of the phone was silent again, if it was two days ago, in the face of the strong resistance of the volunteers, Li Qiwei would not have thought about it, and would have ordered the Eighth Army to stop the attack, after all, the commander's ideas may not always be realized in the face of the cruel reality.

Moreover, from the counterattack to the present, he has inflicted great casualties on the volunteers, and the east and west fronts have advanced hand in hand, and the troops have approached the 38th parallel, which has not only relieved the crisis in Seoul and saved half of South Korea, but also can foresee the confrontation with the Chinese army after this battle.

Keep South Korea and end the war with dignity.

This was President Truman's earnest request to succeed MacArthur, and now that he has overfulfilled the strategic tasks assigned to him by the President with superb tactics, there is no need to waste the lives of the GIs.

Therefore, when he found out that the Volunteers had organized a systematic positional defense on the front line of Tieyuan and Lianchuan, he had a faint intention to retreat, but before he could turn this retreat into practical action, a commentary article published by Time Magazine, which is quite influential in the United States, was like a yellow bell in the twilight of the morning, which woke up Li Qiwei's silent consciousness, and also broke the trace of not resolute retreat.

The article, titled "The Second Incheon on the Korean Battlefield," used unsourced figures and interview transcripts to portray Ridgway's Tieyuan breakthrough as a historical node that determined the fate of North Korea, and considered his merits to be no less than MacArthur's Inchon landing.

In the meantime, the article began to praise Li Qiwei's great achievements, believing that this was the best opportunity to completely annihilate the Red Chinese army and completely turn the tide of the war, and that it was the most brilliant peak of Li Qiwei's military career, and his exploits even surpassed many famous generals in the history of the US military, and issued an appeal hoping that Congress would issue a special decree to promote Li Qiwei to a five-star general.

Ridgway is a rational general, but he is also a man who loves vanity, and when he saw the most influential and authoritative political magazine in the United States, he held himself up to the sky, and the vanity hidden in his heart was instantly satisfied with 300 percent.

In particular, the sentence "Since succeeding MacArthur, the situation in the Korean War has changed radically." There was a faint feeling of trampling MacArthur under his feet, and Li Qi was really secretly refreshed.

But under the so-called fame, it is actually difficult to deserve, since he has inherited this vanity, he has to come up with the corresponding things to be worthy of this vanity, and Li Qiwei can only get his hands on breaking through Tieyuan!

Yes, knowing that Tie Yuan was still stuck, but for the glory of that famous general, Li Qiwei had to give it a go.

Since he wants to be ruthless, so when the silence is broken again, Ridgway will only say something heavier than a thousand words: "I, fully support you!" ”

As a result, the US forces on the entire Korean front line have been completely mobilized, first of all, the four aircraft carriers of the Navy have been concentrated on the west coast of the DPRK, and more than 100 carrier-based aircraft equipped with them will directly participate in the attack mission on the Tiewon front.

It was followed by the 11th Air Force of the U.S. Air Force stationed in Japan, which is a strategic strike force fully equipped with B-29 heavy bombing, as the main bombing force during World War II, participated in strategic air raids on the Japanese mainland, and was stationed in Japan after the war.

Immediately after arriving at the port, 236 155mm howitzers and 32 203mm howitzers were ready to replace the battle damage, along with six base ammunition, were transferred to Van Vliet by Ridgway.

At the same time, in order to deal with the occasional surprise attacks by the Chinese and Soviet MiG-15s, Ridgway also sent two fighter groups stationed in Japan to the Tieyuan front line to strengthen escort and air defense capabilities.

In addition to other forces and weapons used to strengthen Tieyuan's front, in less than two days, the US military gathered more than 400 combat planes and more than 500 artillery pieces to Tieyuan, and the ammunition used was innumerable.

With such a strong force, Van Vliet could finally fulfill his oath to destroy flesh and blood with steel, so in the early morning of the second day of one day, under his direct orders, Colonel Wharton, the commander of the forward command post, finally gave the order for the general attack of Tieyuan.

In an instant, dense artillery shells roared towards Tieyuan's volunteer position, bombers covering the clouds and the sun wantonly sowed the seeds of death, and attack planes flying at low altitude searched for fish to slip through the net in the gap between explosions in the sky, and as long as they sensed that there was a problem, they would not hesitate to use napalm to ignite the flames that soared into the sky.

Countless shells, bombs, and bullets were so dense that they could even collide with each other in the air, and many of them could no longer be described in words, and the explosions produced were even more inaudible, and the entire Tieyuan seemed to fall into the end of the world, and the only remaining sunlight was obscured by the dense smoke of gunpowder.

At this moment, the great earthquake trembled; At this moment, the mountains cracked; At this moment, even iron is burning......

"Boom~~~~"

The violent roar was not a mechanical noise, but the same sound produced by the intensive artillery explosion of the US army, so that even the sound of speech could not be heard in the tunnel, and the soldiers could only rely on simple gestures and eye contact to communicate.

But he didn't shake the dirt on his body from time to time like Wu Chen on the side, he just sat quietly, this is already the seventh day.

In seven days, Tang Jixian and his heavy firepower company repelled more than 100 attacks by the United Nations forces, and firmly controlled the main position of Neutron Mountain in their own hands.

For this reason, the heavy firepower company also paid a lot of price, but fortunately, the heavy firepower company received a lot of support, the six German-made 150mm howitzers in the rear can be summoned by them, and the air force fighters that fly over from time to time will also disperse the enemy fighters for them, plus the individual rocket launcher, recoilless artillery, retrovern grenade launcher and other powerful equipment in the hand, although the heavy firepower company has suffered a lot of losses, but it has not broken its muscles and bones.

However, the situation began to take a turn for the worse from the afternoon before yesterday, when the artillery positions around Tieyuan, which were overwhelmingly covered like locusts, carried out carpet bombing, and no matter whether they were real targets or false targets, they were a series of unreasonable bombs.

After a wave of bombers, followed by a wave of dense low-altitude attack planes, those artillery that escaped by luck were surrounded and beaten by bloodthirsty US attack planes as soon as they were out of danger; Then another wave of bombers flew overhead......

Even the six German-made 150mm howitzers that were well versed in camouflaging the logistics department of the Volunteer Army also lost four artillery pieces under the overwhelming rain of bullets by the US army.

In the face of such serious losses, the commander-in-chief of the Tieyuan front immediately requested air force support, and the next day the US army was ready to repeat the old trick, but after a surprise attack by our air force, the turtle retreated, but then the US F-86 fighter plane, which was several times larger than me, pounced on the MiG-15 of the army.

Although the pilots of the Air Force flew the MiG-15 and engaged in a bloody battle with the enemy, they were outnumbered and had to retreat while fighting, so the US Air Force fighters once again wreaked havoc in the sky.

In the afternoon, the U.S. artillery group began to bombard Zhongzishan, round after round, and the tentative attacks were wave after wave, even at night, and they did not stop until early this morning, when the strongest fire attack since the start of the Tieyuan war......

In less than three days, the heavy firepower company, which had not been injured before, finally became scarred, and in particular, the tentative attack that began yesterday caused the heavy firepower company to suffer unprecedented casualties.

So much so that Tang Jixian finally had to add the engineer platoon and more than a dozen transport troops and stretcher soldiers who had built a second-line position in the rear to the combat sequence, and launched a counterattack with a platoon reinforced by a certain main force regiment to repel the enemy, otherwise the position of Zhongzi Mountain might be lost.

Now, looking at the posture of the US military, it is to launch a general offensive, and the heavy firepower company, which has lost artillery support and aircraft cover, can only use flesh and blood to resist the steel storm of the United Nations forces in order to hold its position.

And this brutal collision seems to have just begun.

Tang Jixian didn't know that in the next moment, how many of these soldiers in the tunnel would be able to wait for the order of the superiors to evacuate, or maybe not a single one.

"Old company commander, maybe I won't be able to see you soon!"

Staring at the falling ashes in front of him, Tang Jixian seemed to see Lao Ge's honest but arrogant face, and couldn't help but smile, as if to say hello, but in the next moment, a heavy blow from his shoulder made Tang Jixian wake up from his chaotic thoughts.

Immediately turned his head and found that it was his own signal soldier Xiao Lizi leaning on his shoulder, Tang Jixian thought that this kid was tired, and fell asleep on his shoulder, and couldn't help but scolded angrily: "You stinky boy, you can also fall asleep at this time, you said that your experience is ......."

As Tang Jixian was talking, he reached out to push Xiao Lizi, but he never thought that his hand would touch Xiao Lizi's face so lightly, and Xiao Lizi, who was lying on his shoulder, collapsed to the ground like a noodle, and then the bloody face appeared in Tang Jixian's eyes, and he was stunned to push back the last two words "how big".

Seeing this, the surrounding soldiers immediately pounced and shouted Xiao Lizi's name loudly, but the little Li Zi, who followed Lao Tang from the bank of the Yalu River, fought all the way to the city of Seoul, and risked his life several times to deliver news back and forth between the company headquarters and Zhongzi Mountain, was so shocked to death by the strong concussion of the artillery.

So much so that even he himself did not perceive the coming of death, and before he died, he wore a tired face and a satisfied smile that meant that he was asleep......

"He's tired, let him sleep!"

Old Tang pulled away the sad crowd, said in a deep voice, then reached out and wiped the blood stains left at the corners of Xiao Lizi's eyes, and his shriveled lips squirmed slightly, which made a low murmur: "Sleep, if you fall asleep, you won't be tired." ”

Listening to Old Tang's words, some soldiers couldn't help but wipe the tears from the corners of their eyes, but more of them looked up at the sky, but the tears still couldn't stop falling......

"I want to avenge Xiao Lizi!"

Wu Chen wiped the tears on his face with his mud-covered sleeves, roared hoarsely, and then the beam with his head wrapped in bandages also shouted: "Avenge Xiao Lizi!" ”

"Revenge! Avenge! Avenge! ”

As if it was an order, the soldiers in the tunnel suddenly shouted revenge to swallow mountains and rivers, and at that moment the artillery in the sky, the fire and rain in the sky under the agitation of revenge, instantly dissipated into invisibility, only the resolute breath in the hearts of the soldiers, through Xiao Han!

Old Tang did not speak, still sat there quietly, only the hand holding the gun clenched tighter than before, and finally the roar of the artillery fire outside the tunnel began to weaken, and the obvious extended fire was clearly discerning.

Seeing this, Old Tang got up on his feet, his round tiger eyes glanced at the people in the tunnel, and only said one sentence: "If you want revenge, follow me!" ”

"Revenge!"

"Kill!"

The shouts full of murderous intent instantly spread from the tunnel to the entire Neutron Mountain position, and the American troops rushed over.

The person in charge of this attack was Company D of the 3rd Regiment of the 25th Division of the US Army, and they originally thought that after a few hits of such ferocious firepower, even if the Chinese soldiers in the tunnel were not all killed, they should be blown up stupidly, and it should not be a big problem to capture Neutron Mountain.

However, when they rushed up, they found that the Chinese soldiers were even more crazy than doping, so that many D-Company soldiers were wondering whether the artillery behind them had hit the Chinese positions with shells or chicken blood.

With this self-deprecating fantasy, the combat effectiveness of D Company can be imagined, as soon as they see it, they turn around and run when they see that the situation is not good, jokes, crazy Chinese even dare to pick up Superman's underwear, not to mention that they ordinary people, it is still important to save their lives.

The commander of the 25th Infantry Division did not care about the D Company, which was about to collapse at the touch of a button, and did not expect this attack to take Neutron Mountain, but the purpose was to test the extent of the defensive strength of Neutron Mountain.

Now that the results are out, it is still the toughness that makes the US military's heart palpitate.

Since this is the case, it is better to greet with firepower, after all, the American army is still very weak physically, so under the order of the commander of the 25th Division, the mortars and small-caliber anti-aircraft guns arranged in the front line are aimed at the top of the hill in unison, and a moment later, the roaring blow resounded through the valley.

Old Tang leaned out of the trench and killed an escaped American soldier with one shot, but before he could fire the second shot, four or five submachine guns fired at him, fortunately, Old Tang reacted quickly and hid in the trench in time, but Rao was like this, the instantaneous bullets still flew past his scalp, stirring up a cloud of dust outside the trench.

Old Tang scolded bad luck, and was about to throw the gun aside, picked up a revolver-type grenade launcher, and was about to give the American army a ruthless blow, but at this moment Old Tang suddenly felt bad, and shouted at the soldiers around him: "It's not good, lie down!" ”

As soon as the words fell, a rain of cannonballs fell from the sky......